Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif did not take kindly to Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-Arkansas) aggressive tweets challenging him to a debate. On Thursday, Zarif wrote on Twitter that Cotton had attacked him with "macho personal smear." The Iranian official also suggested Cotton should be concerned about the "peace" of his son Gabriel,who was born Monday ...

Andrew Kohut, founding director of the Pew Research Center and director of Pews Global Attitudes Project, wrote a piece last week for Real Clear Politics asking, Would Iran Deal Imperil Jews Loyalty to Democratic Party? On first blush, this sounds like a clickbait headline. But Kohut is a well-respected pollster working for a well-respected, and emphatically ...

Sen. Marco Rubio has proposed a change to the Iran nuclear review bill that could unravel a carefully crafted compromise and kill the Obama Administrations negotiations. Longtime Marco RubioJeb Bush Alliance Fades in GOP ContestHow Barack Obamas Trade Deal Puts Hillary Clinton in a BindJon 'Bones' Jones Stripped of UFC Title and SuspendedNBC NewsBaltimore ...

Billionaire Haim Saban, a longtime Clinton donor, defended Hillary Clintons commitment to Israel in an interview on Israels Channel One preceding the former secretary of states announcement of her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination lastSunday. When asked about Clintons position on the Iran framework agreement, Saban claimed to know ...

WASHINGTON While negotiators toiled late into the night in Switzerland, scratching together a nuclear agreement withIran, Senator Bob Corker was conducting his own tense talks back home. The new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Corker, a Tennessee Republican, was trying to marshal a bipartisan coalition for his bill to forcePresident ...

Republican opponentsof a framework agreement with Iran received millions in campaign donations in 2014 from pro-Israel billionaires and other influential American donors, according to a report. Republicans, now in control of both chambers of US Congress, are more ardently pro-Israel than ever before as they collected more money during the 2014 election ...

[caption id="attachment_152042" align="alignright" width="209"] President Barack Obama speaks at the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Summit, Feb. 19, 2015, at the State Department in Washington.[/caption] WASHINGTONNo matter what happens with the negotiations over curbing Irans nuclear program, count on the issue being front and center during ...

[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="199"] FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, then-Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. waves at his election watch party in North Little Rock, Ark., after defeating incumbent Sen.[/caption] The open letter from Senator Tom Cotton and 46 other Republican senators to the leadership of Iran, whicheven ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has denounced a Republican letter to Iran as an unprecedented and calculated attempt to interfere with nuclear talks underway between Tehran and the P5+1 group, saying he will not apologize for the letter when negotiations resume on Monday morning. A group of 47 Republican senators ignored protocol and sent an open ...

[caption id="attachment_54052" align="alignright" width="187"] United Nations Security Council in session (file photo)[/caption] It isnowclearthat any deal with Iran will by its terms be a non-binding agreement. That means the United States will have no international law obligation to comply with the agreement, considered in isolation, and that ...

[caption id="attachment_153050" align="alignright" width="199"] Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, before the House Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Agencies. Kerry has implored skeptical senators not to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran before ...

[caption id="attachment_5680" align="alignright" width="163"] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at the State Department in Washington September 12, 2012, on the deaths of U.S. embassy staff in Benghazi. REUTERS/Gary Cameron[/caption] Republican Sen. Tom Cotton sparred Wednesday with Hillary Clinton on Twitter, after the former ...

[caption id="attachment_155117" align="alignright" width="183"] From left: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell[/caption] Tens of thousands of Americans have signed a petition to the White House demanding treason charges against 47 Republican senators who attempted to sabotage President Barack Obama's efforts to reach a nuclear accord with Iran....

[caption id="attachment_154809" align="alignright" width="237"] U.S Sen. Tom Cotton[/caption] After helping to ignite a firestorm over a possible nuclear agreement with Iran, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, is now sort of acknowledging his error. Maybe that wasnt exactly the best way to do that, he said on Fox News ...

[caption id="attachment_154923" align="alignright" width="194"] Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal[/caption] Two US presidential hopefuls from the Republican Party have added their support to a much-criticized letter sent to Iran that warns against a potential nuclear agreement. In an open letter to Iran on Monday, 47 Republican senators warned ...

[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="161"] FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, then-Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. waves at his election watch party in North Little Rock, Ark., after defeating incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor. Forty-seven Republican senators warned Monday that any agreement the Obama administration strikes with Iran ...

[caption id="attachment_143879" align="alignright" width="192"] US Senator Mark Kirk[/caption] WASHINGTON The four House Democrats from Illinois mulling a 2016 challenge to Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., blasted him Tuesday for signing a letter to Irans leaders warning a nuclear deal with President Barack Obama may not last after he leaves office. Just ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian and Marie Donovan, with contributors Farzin Farzad and Diana Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key takeaway:Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi was elected Chairman ...

[caption id="attachment_124786" align="alignright" width="180"] U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, November 5, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/LARRY DOWNING[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- Relations between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans have hit a new low....

[caption id="attachment_149211" align="alignright" width="185"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption] Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, rejected a recent letter sent by US Republican senators, saying that it seems like the authors of the letter do not understand international law. The debate overa possible nuclear ...